Posted on 01/06/2015 6:15:37 AM PST by C19fan
In the Mississippi Delta town of Tchula, there’s a fading columned mansion that once belonged to Sara Virginia Jones, the daughter of a local plantation dynasty. Its walls were lined with nearly 400 works by artists as prominent as Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Salvador Dali, and Andy Warhol.
Then, in the 1990s, the house changed hands. Today, it is filled with framed photos of the current owner—Tchula’s controversial first black mayor, Eddie Carthan, who was in office from 1977 to 1981—posing with U.S. presidents Carter, Clinton, and Obama and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
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When ignorance moves in decency leaves, it’s that simple.
Why not? Whitey gets blamed for everything else.
It’s not so much a race thing as the Delta itself - it’s a seething cauldron of poverty, unemployment, and illegitimacy, somewhat spawned by America’s exit from the textile industry.
Blaming, yes, but not for doing anything wrong - instead, for leaving and making starkly clear that those remaining weren’t doing anything _right_ (at least insofar as was needed to retain the same quality of life as those who left).
Basically, one group “went Galt” and the other still hasn’t figured out why everything fell apart - even when detailing exactly why it did.
Why don’t blacks try moving in to Chinatown? Then they can whine about “yellow flight” for a change.
Well said...
Mississippi ping.
If my Mayor posed with those clowns I'd run too.
Wonder if Jesse and Al feel left out?
“...Basically, one group “went Galt” and the other still hasn’t figured out why everything fell apart - even when detailing exactly why it did.”
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I think you nailed it, unfortunately. It isn’t so much “white flight” as it is “going Galt”. And the ONLY thing the remaining black community and its leaders can do is “blame whitey” and proclaim victimhood. At some point folks have to take responsibility for their own situation if they really want to progress.
So, if one stays, it is bad.
If one goes, it is bad.
OK, now I understand.
Let’s see...what does this story have in common with the fate of post-colonial Africa? Detroit? Haiti? Etc.
It’s never their own fault. It’s always whitey’s fault for not helping them enough.
If whitey is around, he’s an oppressor. If whitey leaves, it’s his fault for abandoning them.
Having experienced “white flight” twice while growing up I know that it’s more about black kids assaulting white kids and the parents’ desire to protect their kids than about mere racism. The blacks started to move in. Assaults and beatings made it dangerous for white kids to go places. What are parents to do?
I'll go one better: During the riots my father's Uncle owned a duplex on 69th at Vermont Ave. in LA (My parents lived in one unit when married in '47). His Uncle, a local fireman well known in the neighborhood, rented the unit out to a black family. During the riots his neighbors took turns keeping watch out for the place and deflecting any potential problems.
Yes, he sold the place and moved out a short time later.
You would think with the oppressors gone, it would be utopia.
Fact is, someone needs to work and be taxed for socialism to function.
No examination given to the reasons behind “white flight” except for the implication that YT is racist.
Couldn’t be:
safety
destruction of infrastructure
destruction of the school system
Decaying areas? White flight.
Prospering areas? Gentrification from white inflow and blacks squeezed out.
Either way you know whose fault it is.
Kinda like the boyfriend having left and blaming him for the dishes being dirty for three weeks.
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